Bulletin

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

After the last mammoth VB100 test on Windows 7, this month sees a smaller field of competitors for the less well supported Linux platform. John Hawes reports on a mixed bag of results.

Cut the Cutwail

Kyle Yang (Fortinet)

After playing the cat-and-mouse game with AV companies for several months, the author(s) of Pushdo/Cutwail finally decided to change their advanced installer, in doing so changing the communication mechanism between the servers and bots. Kyle Yang…

Data tainting for malware analysis - part three (additional results)

Additional results.

Data tainting for malware analysis – part three

In this three-part series Florent Marceau studies the use and advantages of full virtualization in the security field. The third and final part looks at the implementation of the technology.

Researchers paid for Chrome bugs

Google invites security researchers to probe its browser.

Phishing and scams continue to rise

Reports show phishing attacks and 419 scams are on the rise, and users continue to fall for such scams.

The web of darkness

Costin Raiu (Kaspersky Lab)

'There are now over 100 times more infected websites on the Internet than three years ago.' Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Fooperman!

Peter Ferrie describes W32/Fooper, a virus that uses the FPU to magically transform a block of data in to executable code.

Chilly celebrations for Kaspersky at south pole

Kaspersky-sponsored expedition reaches South Pole.

’Twas the season to go phishing

Phishing attacks rise in run up to the holidays.